placenamesTempleachally
Teampall an Chalaidh
Lewis distinguishes an operating quarry at Ryninch from earlier extensive workings at Derry.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teampall an Chalaidh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Templeachally · English · main form
Place & story
Slate worked at different times
Samuel Lewis recorded a working slate quarry at Ryninch in his 1837 Templeichally account. He also placed the Derry slate quarries in the parish, describing them as formerly worked on a very extensive scale. His wording distinguishes present activity at Ryninch from the earlier scale at Derry, without establishing a closure date for the latter. [2]
Gritstone for construction
The parish also had gritstone quarries supplying material used extensively for buildings. Lewis’s account thus records both slate extraction and the quarrying of a different stone for construction, without identifying individual buildings supplied by these workings. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Coordinates
- 52.81021, -8.41086
- Mapped area
- 40.64 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2216 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Templeachally. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Templeichally: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.